VP of Product FinTech

VP of Product - $250M funded FinTech startupThis Jobot Job is hosted by: Taylor KingAre you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the ''Apply Now'' button and sending us your resume.Salary: $210,000 - $230,000 per yearA bit about us:We are a fast growing SF startup with an office in NYC that is revolutionizing how employees can take advantage of equity before their company goes public, along with a variety of institutional investing products. Currently used by some of the fastest growing tech companies in the world like Airbnb, SpaceX, etc. and we''re just getting started! $250M in funding with an IPO in the near future.The VP of Product will take ownership over our new data/intelligence platform, so ideally this person has led the way on a data centric fintech platform in the past.Open to San Francisco or NYC candidates for this role.Why join us?We are well funded but early stage enough for this hire to come in and make a huge impact and experience exponential growth over the next few years. Competitive Base Salary!Nearly full remote, we still want to have a culture so we ask that engineers come in atleast once or twice or quarter. Flexible Work Schedules! Accelerated Career Growth!Equity packageJob DetailsYou are an experienced, passionate leader with experience in leading Product for a data-centric software businesses. You enjoy direct contribution at every level from long term strategy to team instrumentation and sprint details, in service of creating amazing customer experiences. You are also an experienced, articulate and high-EQ manager and leader. You are energized by the idea of building a world-class Data business, at a company where the performance and culture of our Product teams is a key differentiator and competitive advantage.You have impressive formal training, an extensive track record of direct contribution, and experience successfully managing and collaborating with teams while in leadership roles.You thrive in team settings, collaborating with other technology teams as well as sales, marketing, operations and other groups across the company. You are a skillful, articulate and prolific communicator, as one of your key approaches to successful collaboration. You are comfortable communicating, presenting and leading in diverse settings - large or small, junior reports or senior leaders of the company. Responsibilities:Team: Did we mention that our people are our greatest asset? Well, we meant it. A primary key to success for this role will be building and leading a world-class Product team.Culture: continuously build and thrive in a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture, and aligned with Forge''s values of bold, humble and accountable Technical Capabilities: Product Management, Product Ownership, Project Management, UI, UX, interaction, instrumentation & measurement, documentation & visual communicationStrategy: lead an approach to Product that delivers scalable excellence in and beyond the Product team, across all products and into other areas of the business. Hire, develop and mentor Product team members who thrive, succeed and grow their careers at the company.Research: partner with the Forge Design, Sales and Marketing teams to establish relationships with customers and conduct research into their needs, experiences, alternatives and constraints. Provide data-informed recommendations that lead to thoughtful roadmap plans. Create user journey maps and storyboards covering entire experiences from first impression to repeat interactions.Vision: develop, articulate, and continuously refine a Product vision for Forge Data, working closely with key internal stakeholders, partners and customers.Roadmap: expertly monitor and extrapolate industry trends, new client needs, and the competitive landscape to inform product roadmap and strategic differentiation. Develop, maintain and articulate a detailed product roadmap, operating an efficient and accountable Product practice that is aligned across strategy, priority, scope and agile execution. Gather, synthesize and leverage data to test all assumptions driving roadmap and priority systematically.Build: leverage your proven track record of successful new product development, in particular the introduction of industry-defining products that advanced and challenged standards within a regulatory landscape.Flexibility: comfortable with Product development efforts of all kinds, from quick swarms to capture an emergent opportunity, to thoroughly researched major strategic development efforts spanning months or quarters.Collaboration: collaborate openly and successfully with Design, Technology, Sales , Operations and beyond. Whether as customers or partners, other teams should see your Product team as key enablers of their success, and the success of the customers all teams serve.Essential Qualifications:Strong knowledge of global markets and investment processes.An undergraduate degree with a technology focus, or equivalent experience applying your undergraduate degree in relevant Product roles.An additional 10+ years of experience, including 5+ inside a technology company successfully managing a team of Product Managers as direct reports.Core belief in the differentiating power of Design excellence and, as such, an enthusiastic partner to an exceptional Design organization in crafting market-leading UI/UX.A world-class Product portfolio, exhibiting your fit with the "About You" section above through your past roles and experience.Many examples of challenges, collaborations, championed efforts and other representative experiences delivering Product excellence from within a technology company.Direct contribution and leadership experience in Product for consumer and enterprise software products globallyAlignment with Forge''s values of being bold, humble and accountable.A proven, energetic, proactive builder of diverse, inclusive, high-performance team cultures.Strong written and verbal communication skills for team and external communications, product copy, documentation and beyond.Global experience, shipping software products into a wide variety of markets across countries, languages and cultures.Desired Qualifications:A postgraduate degree with a Product, Design or Engineering focusExperience in the FinTech industryExperience at growth-stage, unicorn startupsPassionate about data science, and experienced in the creation of powerful analytics tools that empower end customers to generate deep insights from the data your products provide.A personal affinity with Forge''s place as an enabler and innovator in the private market, helping exciting companies succeed in changing the world for the better.Experience in software development, especially HTML, JavaScript and css.Experience with our key software tools, especially Atlassian, Figma, Heap & Looker.A detailed understanding of venture capital, private equity, investment banking, etc.Trading, investment management, market operations, fixed income or equity indices or risk management or related experience.Experience in reference data or vendor data distributionInterested in hearing more? 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Created: 2021-11-29